On Dec. 27, 1845, Chicago's first steam-powered press was...

On Dec. 27, 1845, Chicago`s first steam-powered press was set up in the office of the Chicago Democrat.

In 1900, prohibitionist Carry Nation staged her raid on a saloon in Wichita, Kan.

In 1901, actress Marlene Dietrich was born in Berlin.

In 1904, the play ``Peter Pan,`` by Sir James M. Barrie, opened in London.

In 1927, ``Show Boat,`` the musical written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, opened in New York.

In 1932, New York`s Radio City Music Hall opened.

In 1941, Japanese planes bombed Manila even though it had been declared an open city in World War II.

In 1945, foreign ministers of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union met in Moscow and called for a provisional democratic government in Korea. On the same date, 28 nations signed an agreement creating the World Bank.

In 1948, Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, the Roman Catholic primate of Hungary, was arrested on espionage charges.

In 1949, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands signed an act granting sovereignty to Indonesia after nearly 350 years of Dutch rule.

In 1968, the Apollo 8 spacecraft and its three astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific after a flight that took them into orbit around the Moon.

In 1972, Australia ended its involvement in the Vietnam War.

In 1973, William Simon, the federal energy chief, announced that the government had set up a standby system to ration gasoline if the energy crisis worsened.

In 1974, a coal mine explosion and fire in northern France took at least 42 lives.